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Gene Bennett, the legendary scout who urged the Cincinnati Reds to draft Derek Jeter only to have his pleas fall on deaf ears, died Wednesday in Portsmouth, Ohio at 89. “Gene was one of the game’s great scouts,” Reds owner Bob Castellini said. “He loved baseball, loved his team and forever changed the way we looked...

With a third-inning single to center field Saturday night at Fort Wayne, Dayton Dragons outfielder Jose Siri extended his hitting streak to 34 consecutive games and can tie a 40-year-old Midwest League record with a hit today against the TinCaps. The record of 35 consecutive games with a hit has been held since 1977 by Tony Toups, who played...

The trio of Scott Moss, Carlos Machorro, and Brian Hunter combined on the first nine-inning no-hitter in Dayton Dragons history Saturday night in a 2-0 Midwest League defeat of Bowling Green at Fifth Third Field. It was officially the second no-hitter in the minor league baseball franchise’s 18-year existence. Future Reds great Johnny...

Browns fourth-round draft pick Howard Wilson, a cornerback from the University of Houston, broke his kneecap in practice Friday, will undergo surgery soon and could miss the season. “It’s disappointing but this is part of playing football,’’ Wilson said in a statement released by the Browns. “It was kind of a...

What a pair they must make on the recruiting trail, former Dayton coach Archie Miller and former Wright State coach Ed Schilling combing the countryside for basketball talent. Call it a Gem City Jam road trip — two guys working together who once ran crosstown programs at schools that wouldn’t play each other. But that’s...

Nobody can fault Archie Miller for swapping Dayton and the Atlantic 10 for Indiana and the Big Ten. Too much money and prestige to turn down, and with so many impact seniors leaving and a bit of a rebuilding phase likely looming, it was just time. Coaches know when they’ve taken a program as far as it can go. At the risk of dampening...

No surprise that more than a dozen NFL teams, including the Browns and Bengals, have met with Oklahoma’s Joe Mixon about possibly employing him. The talented running back tantalized scouts by covering 40 yards in 4.43 seconds at Oklahoma’s pro day this week. He had not been invited to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis because...

Redshirt freshman Azim Qadri put up a week’s worth of highlights — he had a grand slam and hit for the cycle while driving in a school-record 10 runs — in Sinclair’s 27-7 win over Tiffin JV team at Grady’s Field in Xenia. Qadri went 5 for 6 with a single, double, two triples and a home run. The Pride scored 15...

The Cleveland Browns are a hot topic at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis this week, a curiosity of sorts given their draft position, perennial quarterback need, 1-15 record last season and a coach, Hue Jackson, who doesn’t shrink from the spotlight. With that in mind, here are five thoughts regarding the state of the Browns...

Assuming his hands are big enough at the scouting combine, that he stands closer to 6-foot-3 than 6-foot-1 and that his Wonderlic score contains two numbers, the Cleveland Browns should select North Carolina quarterback Mitch Trubisky with the No. 1 pick in the draft. Why, other than having needed a quarterback since about 1994, should they...

Putting objectivity to the side, I will be openly rooting for Wright State to beat Wisconsin-Green Bay when the two Horizon League women’s basketball titans square off at 5 p.m. Friday at the Nutter Center. Not because the Raiders are a local team trying for the first conference championship in program history, but because Green...

There are many reasons to like former Knicks forward Charles Oakley. • He sided with Cavs superstar LeBron James in his running feud with Charles Barkley, recently advising Sir Charles to “stop drinking at work” and once even slapping him. • He’s from Cleveland, admits it and even owns a car wash there. •...

The jarring news about Homer Bailey on Wednesday brought fresh attention to just how foolish it was to lavish that six-year, $105 million contract on him and how there’s nothing anyone can do about it now. Bailey and his riches will start the season on the disabled list after undergoing surgery to remove bone spurs from his pitching...

When the Browns jettison an aging quarterback with diminishing skills, it’s always a sad day because it makes me think of Bernie Kosar, Bill Belichick and that whole sordid chapter in 1993. I’ve learned to shield my disappointment from view. The latest to be pushed off the cliff is Josh McCown, an All-American type of guy who...

Free-agent pitcher Justin Masterson, former Indians ace, is headed to Arizona to try and restart his career, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported. The Beavercreek High School graduate, who turns 32 on March 22, will embark on a throwing program next week and agent Randy Rowle said 10 to 12 teams, including the Indians, are expected to watch...

With New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady 60 minutes from his fifth Super Bowl ring, it’s time for a stroll down memory lane. Do you remember where you were April 16, 2000, the second day of the NFL draft, a date that lives in infamy for Browns fans? I was at Browns headquarters in Berea, Ohio, making frequent trips to the frozen...

Bronson Arroyo passed his physical and will sign a minor-league deal with the Reds, one of his former teams, MLB. com reported. Arroyo, who turns 40 this month, hasn’t thrown a big-league pitch in two years, but he wants another shot. RELATED: Oft-injured Reds catcher Mesoraco keeps looking forward Shoulder and elbow injuries...

If you’re wondering why the Browns are horrible year after year, just watch the Super Bowl. Better yet, don’t. Yes, we know Bill Belichick first became a head coach in Cleveland and has blossomed into the greatest coach of all-time with New England. And that Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanaham ran the Cleveland offense...

When I wondered last week in this space if we’ll ever see a resumption of the Gem City Jam men’s college basketball series after this current 20-year pause, the deluge of response surprised me. Sentiment broke mostly along party lines, with faithful University of Dayton fans brushing the notion aside like lint from an overcoat...

For the benefit of any men’s college basketball fans who recently moved to the area and were scratching their heads: Yes, it’s true. Hard as it might be to fathom, the two Division I schools in town don’t play each other. I was reminded of this tonight while watching the annual matchup between Xavier and Cincinnati known...